The new dressmaker; with complete and fully illustrated instructions on every point connected with sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, from the actual stitches to the cutting, making, altering, mending, and cleaning of clothes for ladies, misses, girls, children, infants, men and boys . turn back the edge of the hem or facing andhem the fold edge by hand to the row of stitching near the edge of the closing (111. 240),covering the sewing of the hooks and eyes. (111. 240.) BLIND LOOPS are used on garments fastened with hooks and eyes, to take the placeof the eyes. The process of making them is sh
The new dressmaker; with complete and fully illustrated instructions on every point connected with sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, from the actual stitches to the cutting, making, altering, mending, and cleaning of clothes for ladies, misses, girls, children, infants, men and boys . turn back the edge of the hem or facing andhem the fold edge by hand to the row of stitching near the edge of the closing (111. 240),covering the sewing of the hooks and eyes. (111. 240.) BLIND LOOPS are used on garments fastened with hooks and eyes, to take the placeof the eyes. The process of making them is shown in Illustration 241. Mark the positionof the loop opposite the hook, knot the thread and bring the needle up through the mate-rial. Make a bar tack the desired length (111. 241) by taking three or more stitches oneover the other. Working from left to right, hold the thread down with the leftthumb, and insert the needle, eye foremost, under the bar and over the thread. (111. 241.)The use of the blunt end of the needle facilitates the work. Draw the thread up. letting thepurl come to the lower edge of the loop. (111. 241.) Repeat the stitches, covering theentire bar tack, and fasten on the wrong side. (111. 241.) Sometimes the bar tacks aremade in the form of a Blind Loop 25 TRIMMING 5TITCHL5 Machine Hemstitching—French Hemstitching—Plain Hemstitching—Imitation Hand-Hemstitch-ing—Double Hemstitching—Beading and Fagot-Stitches—Drawn-Work—Rolled Edges—Com-bination Running and Cross Stitching—Diagonal Stitch—Double Overcasting—Cross DoubleOvercasting—Running Stitch used as a Trimming—Blanket-Stitch—Feather-Stitching—BarTacks—Arrow-Head Tacks—Crows-Foot Tacks
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